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Maria Sledmere is a poet, editor and academic whose work explores environmental degradation, sleep deprivation and the digital age. She is lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde and her latest book, Midsummer Song (Hypercritique) was published by No University Press in 2024. Other books include Cinders (Krupskaya, 2024), Woundscape (Osmosis Press, 2023), An Aura of Plasma Around the Sun (Hem Press, 2023), Cocoa and Nothing – with Colin Herd (SPAM Press, 2023), Visions & Feed (HVTN Press, 2022) and The Luna Erratum (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2021). In 2023, Maria was included in the Saltire Society’s ‘40 under 40’ list celebrating ‘outstanding Scottish creatives’ and her work has been profiled on BBC Radio and in The Guardian, The Poetry Review, Dazed, It’s Nice That and other places.
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